NH-D14 2600K temperatures too hot?

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VonZippa

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Hello. I just signed up, so I'm new to the forums.

I've got an i7 2600K over-clocked to 4.5GHz with an offset Vcore of +.045v. While under full load CPU-Z flickers between 1.296 and 1.304 volts. At those settings, I'm seeing 65C in CoreTemp on the hottest cores after 30 minutes of Prime95 on the "maximum heat, power consumption" selection. After 50 runs of Intel Burn Test at maximum, I'm seeing 73C. Looking around various forums, people seem to be getting better temperatures than that. The ambient temperature during these tests was about 22.5C.

I've remounted the Noctua and it didn't seem to make a difference. It's all screwed down as secure as I could get it. I followed the directions and put about a 4-5 mm drop of grease on the center of the CPU heat spreader and then screwed the heatsink down, alternating one turn per screw so it would put even pressure on the thermal grease to spread evenly, and all that.

Do those temperatures seem right for the Noctua at that voltage and frequency?
 
Temps seem a bit high to me i'm running my 2500K at 4.5ghz @ 1.36v (shitty standard P8P67) also using a D14 and I never go above 59c. 2600k and 2500K run at the same temps btw just in case anyone was wondering why I was comparing mine to a 2600.
 
A lot of it seems to be down to the silicon lottery. Its all about the volts, more volts more temperature. Some chips can get higher clocks with lower volts. 65C doesn't seem that high to me.
 
Ye, that's true some chips do run hotter than others. Could just be you have a hot chip, suppose it depends on how good your case is as well.
 
The case is a Cooler Master HAF 932. 230mm intakes on the front and side panel, and a 230mm in the roof and 140mm in the rear on exhaust. I've heard some people say the 2600k runs hotter than 2500k because of hyper-threading but I don't know for sure. It does run twice as many threads during the stress testing so maybe there's some truth to it? I guess I should turn it off and see if the temps are any different.
 
VonZippa said:
The case is a Cooler Master HAF 932. 230mm intakes on the front and side panel, and a 230mm in the roof and 140mm in the rear on exhaust. I've heard some people say the 2600k runs hotter than 2500k because of hyper-threading but I don't know for sure. It does run twice as many threads during the stress testing so maybe there's some truth to it? I guess I should turn it off and see if the temps are any different.
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Case is good enough so you have good air flow, from what I have read on other forums that the temps are the same could be wrong but i have read it from more than one person on more than one site. Try it without hyper thread enabled though it might make a difference.
 
Just ran a 30 minute Prime95 test with HT turned off and there was a difference although it was only 3-4C cooler.

And yes, both Noctua fans are running at 12V full speed.
 
Do you have the front fan facing the front of the case as well and not towards the GPU it would be sucking warm air from the graphics card if you have it facing towards it.
 
Well, the consensus seems to be that the temps aren't so bad after all then. So I'll try to quit worrying about it and just enjoy my new rig.

Thanks to everyone for your input.
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